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Faculty Details
Nan Yang

Assistant Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management


Area of Expertise:

Operations & Manufacturing Management

Research Interests:

Supply risks in supply chain management, Inventory management, Competition in supply chain management


Selected Publications:

  • "Procurement Strategies with Unreliable Suppliers", , with A. Federgruen
  • "Inventory Management with an Exogenous Supply Process,", Operations Research, Issue 1, 111-129, with A. Muharremoglu
  • "Competition Under Generalized Attraction Models: Applications to Quality Competition Under Yield Uncertainty,", Management Science, Issue 12, 2028-2043, with A. Federgruen, 2009
  • "Optimal Supply Diversification under General Supply Risks", Operations Research, Issue 6, 1451-1468, with A. Federgruen, 2009
  • "Selecting a Portfolio of Suppliers under Demand and Supply Risks", Operations Research, Issue 4, 916-936, with A. Federgruen, 2008

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Academic/Professional Activities:

  • Member, INFORMS
  • Member, MSOM Society


Awards/Honors:

  • John M. Chapman Fellowship, Columbia Business School, 2002


Nan  Yang

Professor Yang received her Ph.D. in Decision, Risk and Operations from Columbia University and taught at the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University. She joined Olin Business School in 2010. Professor Yang's research addresses a number of fundamental risk factors regarding the supply mechanisms in general supply chains - especially yield uncertainty and lead-time uncertainty. Her research work has been published in Management Science and Operations Research.

Nan Yang's Curriculum Vitae
Email: yangn@wustl.edu
Phone: (314) 935-4732

PhD 2007, Columbia University Graduate School of Business
Master of Philosophy 2003, Columbia University Graduate School of Busines
MBA 2000, Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management
BA 1997, Dalian University of Technology Depart of Foreign Languages